Kristy Morcom, spokesperson for Wildlife World Zoo, said barriers around animal enclosures are put in place for the safety of both the guests and animals. "Without thinking, I had no idea what I was going to see, I just ran over there", Wilkerson stated. At no time was the animal out of its enclosure. [Full Article...]

Consequent on the announcement of the schedule for the General Election, the Model Code of Conduct (MCC) for the Guidance of Political Parties and Candidates comes into operation with immediate effect from today itself in the entire country. [Full Article...]

Democrats wrestled for days about whether or how to punish Omar, a freshman from Minnesota who's one of two Muslim women in Congress. "For the president, who when neo-Nazis marched in Charlottesville in front of a synagogue and said "burn it down" and he said "both sides" are to blame, this is a new divisive low", the Democrat from NY, who is Jewish, wrote on Facebook. [Full Article...]

According to Met Éireann‏, Saturday night will be cold with showery rain , merging into longer spells of rain at times. Poor visibility, with slippery and icy conditions, will occur at times, Met Eireann warns. This line will continue to lift northward into the early afternoon, allowing for the changeover to rain showers through the Sunday afternoon and evening. [Full Article...]

After confirming she wasn't "running" for the White House in 2020 Tuesday, sources close to Hillary Clinton are telling the New York Times she won't "close the door" on a potential third bid for the Oval Office until she sees Robert Mueller's Russia-Trump collusion report . [Full Article...]

Addressing the media in Sukkar, FM Qureshi stated that, "People have raised questions on India's policies", adding that Modi's stance is not being accepted by his own people. Pakistan's High Commissioner to India Sohail Mahmood met Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday and took his advice on Indo-Pak relations before returning to his post in New Delhi . [Full Article...]

He added that Prime Minister Modi was making it possible for such "fraudsters" to loot and run away. Choksi was granted citizenship of Antigua and Barbuda on January 15, 2018, while Modi is in London . Modi and Choksi, who have both denied wrongdoing, left India before the details of the fraud became public. The statements by ED and MEA come a day after a Britain-based newspaper claimed that Mo... [Full Article...]

According to New York Times, the conflict could have spiralled out of control had Pakistan not released the Indian pilot, Abhinandan, two days after his capture as a "gesture of peace". The daily said without global pressure, a long-term solution of tension between the two countries is unlikely and the threat of nuclear war will remain intact. [Full Article...]

The designation as an official holiday means "fighting for gender equality and women's rights", Berlin Governing Mayor Michael Müller said . Müller said equal pay for equal work has still not been achieved, adding that there is a 23 percent difference between men's and women's salaries. [Full Article...]

The sanctions impacted the Maduro regime's main source of revenue, but the Venezuelan dictator has resisted calls to step down and cede leadership of the country to opposition party leader Juan Guaido . President Donald Trump placed sanctions on US assets controlled by PDVSA, Venezuela's state-owned oil company, on January 28. Customers line up at a gas station in Caracas, Venezuela, Friday... [Full Article...]

Previously, the feature was only available on Google Home speakers. The feature has been around on Google Home speakers for a while now, but Android Police reports that it's now live on Google Assistant smart displays too, for chats that feel more natural. [Full Article...]

White House press secretary Sarah Sanders says that Trump accepted Shine's resignation Thursday evening. Shine plans to continue in the Trump orbit as a senior adviser to the president's 2020 reelection campaign. Shine's resignation came in the same week of an explosive New Yorker report about the cozy relationship between Trump and Fox News. Others who served in that role were Anthony Scaramucc... [Full Article...]

Defending the game in a Steam Community post prior to Valve's decision, Desk Lamp wrote "The game is marked as adult". Johnson went on to say that Valve wants to help facilitate developers expressing themselves and finding an audience, but "this developer has chosen content matter and a way of representing it that makes it very hard for us to help them do that". [Full Article...]

At the heart of the crisis are claims that Trudeau and his team pressured Canada's first indigenous attorney general, Jody Wilson-Raybould, to cut a deal with an engineering firm from Trudeau's home province, and the implication that he demoted her when she refused. [Full Article...]